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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732355
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The transformation of hunger : the demand for calories past and present
Logan, Trevon D. - In: The journal of economic history 69 (2009) 2, pp. 388-408
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868122
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The transformation of hunger revisited : estimating available calories from the budgets of late nineteenth-century British households
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Bezabih, Mintewab - In: The journal of economic history 75 (2015) 2, pp. 512-525
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The transformation of hunger : the demand for calories past and present
Logan, Trevon D. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003223127
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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946589
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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : the nutritional transition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 17 (2023) 3, pp. 533-565
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380593
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The transformation of hunger revisited
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Bezabih, Mintewab - 2013
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the …. We also warn against the simple assertion that a high elasticity implies hunger. -- nutrition ; living standards ; worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721362
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The Transformation of Hunger : The Demand for Calories Past and Present
Logan, Trevon - 2021
According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247292
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The Transformation of Hunger : The Demand for Calories Past and Present
Logan, Trevon D. - 2005
According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466917
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Ending famine in India : a transnational history of food aid and development, c. 1890-1950
Simonow, Joanna - 2023
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